Oophoritis - PID

Oophoritis refers to the inflammation of one or both ovaries. This usually occurs at the same time as salpingitis (infection of the fallopian tube(s) and is termed Salpingo-oophoritis), pelvic inflammatory disease and/or other infections. As the ovaries produce eggs, such inflammation is very likely to have an effect on fertility.

The major cause of oophoritis, as with salpingitis and pelvic inflammatory disease in general is gonorrhea or chlamydia which infect the vagina and move into the uterus, fallopian tubes and then the ovaries. The most common way a woman develops PID is by having unprotected sex with someone who has a sexually transmitted infection.

However, such infections may also enter the body during surgical procedures, such as: